Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-08-14 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks for the interesting idea. I decided to try something 
similar. (just for fun).


Decentralized Social Network (DecNet):
Is a conjunction of facebook, twitter and reddit.

Clients:
Can create their own profiles (private key, public key, address, 
profile file) and share them through the network. Pull other 
profiles by address. Writing posts, replies, open threads, vote, 
etc.
Content like images, videos, etc. cannot be stored in the profile 
file but should be linked through special tags (like html?).

Every client provide their own profile file.

Servers:
Will provide a list of addresses where profile files can be found 
including an address of the owner.

Will backup profile files.

1. Content cannot be in blockchain because of overbloating the 
network. Every profile has their own `file` with all the content 
in it.
2. `Servers` can setup their exchanging limits. Like profile size 
limit (default 40 MB), time to live (3 to 48 hours from last 
profile pull).


More info will be added to the README later.

https://github.com/SatoshiR/DecNet



People... It just came to mind... it's a very bad idea to make 
an incensurable social media. It would be a safe heaven for 
pedophiles, drug traffickers, human traffickers, > hitmen and 
criminals alike.


It's similar to working as a programmer for a military. You are 
just a provider who provides the software.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 14/07/2017 7:10 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 15:21:09 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
[...]

Scale your dreams back a bit.

If you want to put money into anything here is my list:

1. Get shared libraries 100% working, with clear articles on how to 
use it, on every platform.

2. std.experimental.color, it seems Manu is stalled
3. std.experimental.image, ok ok, this one is mine but its about time 
we get the damn interfaces standardized in Phobos!
4. GUI widget rendering library, GUI widget != GUI toolkit (think just 
rendering a single control), basically handles rendering + accessibility.


These are not big projects, but they would go a long way to getting 
any thing really "cool".
Keep in mind, money talks. Getting the right people available to work 
on a project full time for a few months would really speed a lot of 
this stuff up.


There is also other stuff like a bidi library, font rasterizer and 
other more useful infrastructure projects that actually has a chance 
of being completed.


Depending on how far you want to go, my list alone is a few years 
worth of work for a 3-5 people team.


What about the following idea:
We extend DUB (the website) with a direct link for a paypal donation for 
every package. If a certain minimum amount is in, the D Foundation 
organizes the funding of the ongoing development?


Regards mt.


That is a service, which D Foundation shouldn't be offering.

Anyway, they don't have enough money to do that.
Somebody needs to come in and foot the bill, otherwise this type of 
infrastructure code is all on peoples own time and desire.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 05:18:40 UTC, wigy wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:11:06 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

So... suggestions... Centralized? Decentralized?

I think the centralized wouldn't fit in any country. It would 
certainly contain pedophile posts... and any sane country 
would shut down the servers immediately...


So... DEcentralized?


Hi! I do not think the debate you have with yourself is 
decentralized vs centralized. You are thinking about moderated 
vs unmoderated. One is a technical structure, the other is a 
social one.


We got used to have moderated channels in media and unmoderated 
channels in person. Now the problem we are facing is that we 
use these social media platforms for replacing "in person" 
communications with friend and family. And the owners of these 
platforms are still treating it as "media" that they should 
moderate.


But this is not so black-and-white still. When i am talking to 
my mother-in-law who has different political biases than me, I 
moderate *myself* not to bring up topics that would just divide 
us, because I love her enough to tolerate her opinions. What 
happens is that we have many social circles in which we have 
different topics and ethical norms. This is in our nature and 
that is fine. Football fans ventilate their emotions at the 
game, but they would not use the same language in their 
workplace.


So what I see is that a social media platform should be 
decentralized to avoid influence from its owner. It should be 
divided into many communities. And each community should be 
able to downvote content that is not tolerated in those 
circles. And downvoted content should be also available by 
others, it should just take more actions to peek into that and 
convince yourself that it was indeed something inapt for that 
community.


In the digital world, everything seems to be black and white. 
But social behaviors are more subtle than that. It is easy to 
create a total dictatorial system like facebook, and it is also 
easy to create a total anarchist system like Silk Road. And our 
goal is to create a system that is similar to in-real-life 
communication, which is neither completely free, nor completely 
controlled.


You cannot build that system on top of a centralized 
architecture where a government can just ask for all data 
including a order to keep that secret. People never trusted 
their inner thoughts or family conversation onto the 
government. And they should not.


This answer is brilliant...it comes out of understanding...deep 
thinking


Now...personally I don't think this social media platform 
potential hype will last. Very soon it will get out of hand. It 
means Facebook, etc. that doesn't offer any quantifiable needed 
value will die if they don't innovate out of the social media 
realm. Presure from governments and users needs will facilitate 
the death of the social media market.


But one thing is certain. Security is becoming a problem. Monies 
are becoming digital. There is a rising need for securing digital 
value without sacrificing convenience.


Our systems today are not designed for that. Sooner or later 
those patches we are making to our systems temporary will get 
exhusted.


Its either an innovative use of blockchain-like systems or a 
secure-from-scratch sandboxing system.


Blockchain seem interesting for D.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 14/07/2017 4:01 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:37:56 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:23:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

On 14/07/2017 3:17 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:10:29 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


A transaction would simply change the owner of the cents and not 
create any message in the database.
Change the owner by changing the values (owner) of the keys (cents) 
being transferred.


Blockchains work by making the entire history available to be 
verified and computed against. This is entirely its selling point.

So no, a block chain can never be fixed sized.

After all, how do you know that X owns the coin and not just some 
random node trying to corrupt and steal every bodies coins?


But it's so expensive... Soon, bitcoin will have a whole terabyte to 
be downloaded... So, no deal?

That's sad.


I was thinking of doing something big... An operating system? With 
everything that a user could desire of?
Big projects are necessary, for D to get more... known (and therefore, 
more used).


A phone OS (ARM)?

I heard that DMD will accept ARM very soon. While that doesn't happen, 
there are other compilers for ARM... So a phone OS could be interesting.

A phone OS written in D.

There are kernels done in D already.
But I don't think they are as complete as Linux's for example.


Scale your dreams back a bit.

If you want to put money into anything here is my list:

1. Get shared libraries 100% working, with clear articles on how to use 
it, on every platform.

2. std.experimental.color, it seems Manu is stalled
3. std.experimental.image, ok ok, this one is mine but its about time we 
get the damn interfaces standardized in Phobos!
4. GUI widget rendering library, GUI widget != GUI toolkit (think just 
rendering a single control), basically handles rendering + accessibility.


These are not big projects, but they would go a long way to getting any 
thing really "cool".
Keep in mind, money talks. Getting the right people available to work on 
a project full time for a few months would really speed a lot of this 
stuff up.


There is also other stuff like a bidi library, font rasterizer and other 
more useful infrastructure projects that actually has a chance of being 
completed.


Depending on how far you want to go, my list alone is a few years worth 
of work for a 3-5 people team.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:37:56 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:23:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

On 14/07/2017 3:17 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:10:29 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


A transaction would simply change the owner of the cents and 
not create any message in the database.
Change the owner by changing the values (owner) of the keys 
(cents) being transferred.


Blockchains work by making the entire history available to be 
verified and computed against. This is entirely its selling 
point.

So no, a block chain can never be fixed sized.

After all, how do you know that X owns the coin and not just 
some random node trying to corrupt and steal every bodies 
coins?


But it's so expensive... Soon, bitcoin will have a whole 
terabyte to be downloaded... So, no deal?

That's sad.


I was thinking of doing something big... An operating system? 
With everything that a user could desire of?
Big projects are necessary, for D to get more... known (and 
therefore, more used).


A phone OS (ARM)?

I heard that DMD will accept ARM very soon. While that doesn't 
happen, there are other compilers for ARM... So a phone OS could 
be interesting.

A phone OS written in D.

There are kernels done in D already.
But I don't think they are as complete as Linux's for example.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:23:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

On 14/07/2017 3:17 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:10:29 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


A transaction would simply change the owner of the cents and 
not create any message in the database.
Change the owner by changing the values (owner) of the keys 
(cents) being transferred.


Blockchains work by making the entire history available to be 
verified and computed against. This is entirely its selling 
point.

So no, a block chain can never be fixed sized.

After all, how do you know that X owns the coin and not just 
some random node trying to corrupt and steal every bodies coins?


But it's so expensive... Soon, bitcoin will have a whole terabyte 
to be downloaded... So, no deal?

That's sad.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 14/07/2017 3:17 PM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 14:10:29 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 04:47:24 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

[...]


What about a decentralized cryptocurrency (like bitcoin) but instead 
of the blockchain having transactions recorded on it, it could have 
something lighter... like a list of coins IDs ("cents", actually) and 
their owners, like:


[...]


A transaction would simply change the owner of the cents and not create 
any message in the database.
Change the owner by changing the values (owner) of the keys (cents) 
being transferred.


Blockchains work by making the entire history available to be verified 
and computed against. This is entirely its selling point.

So no, a block chain can never be fixed sized.

After all, how do you know that X owns the coin and not just some random 
node trying to corrupt and steal every bodies coins?


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-14 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 04:47:24 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

On 14/07/2017 1:41 AM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

Hmmm... But how would a criminal post be deleted or removed?
Even if decentralized, govs could forbid the use of it 
(specially having a server of this social media), considering 
that it's database could contain child pornography 
(undeletable child pornography - really bad).


But it doesn't matter, I have other projects to invest my 
money on D.


I will post the links soon.


Anyway its just silly to go for removal of servers. The 
overhead is far too great. Our compression algo's can't back it 
up. You'll be talking terabytes just to store a few 'websites' 
soon enough.


Nah, anyway decentralized != anonymous. Even in Tor there are 
servers.


What we need isn't a decentralized http replacement. What we 
need is a decentralized dns with some form of filters available.


What about a decentralized cryptocurrency (like bitcoin) but 
instead of the blockchain having transactions recorded on it, it 
could have something lighter... like a list of coins IDs 
("cents", actually) and their owners, like:


1 = Vitor
2 = Vitor
3 = Vitor
4 = Leonard
[...]

(cents 1, 2, 3 belong to Vitor and cent 4 belong to Leonard, and 
so on...). A "map" (C++) or associative array (D) with the ID of 
the cent (key) and owner (value) or opposite, if necessary.


Is this even possible? Please consider that I don't know a lot 
about cryptography. And I have no idea of whether this is 
feasible with D or with any language at all, so if I'm speaking 
nonsensic things, just tell me.
But I think it would be lighter than store all transactions from 
the very first one.
I just don't know if this is doable; cryptocurrencies have a lot 
of security measures to avoid transferring money that doesn't 
exist, money that isn't yours, and so on, to confirm the 
transaction...


Wouldn't it be easier? All the cents should have a first owner 
though... one that would sell to resellers, or just give away to 
random people.


That way, the blockchain would have a fixed size, forever. 
Lighter than all that expensive mining stuff (that in my country 
is impossible - lack of decent machines, pricey electric energy), 
and the worst part: downloading 100+ GigaBytes because blockchain 
stores transactions, this database gets bigger and bigger...
List of cents is limited; it's fixed. But instead of 18 Million 
that bitcoin uses, I was thinking of trillions (so the value of 
the currency is more aligned to fiat currencies that we already 
know and are used to).


So... tell me. Is this possible? *Is this safe*? Is anybody going 
to be stolen if blockchain stores a map of cent id + owner 
instead of a bunch of transactions?


I know that it would be lighter for CPUs of users and servers as 
well, and to the disk, that's for sure.


Waiting for replies.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 14/07/2017 1:41 AM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

Hmmm... But how would a criminal post be deleted or removed?
Even if decentralized, govs could forbid the use of it (specially having 
a server of this social media), considering that it's database could 
contain child pornography (undeletable child pornography - really bad).


But it doesn't matter, I have other projects to invest my money on D.

I will post the links soon.


Anyway its just silly to go for removal of servers. The overhead is far 
too great. Our compression algo's can't back it up. You'll be talking 
terabytes just to store a few 'websites' soon enough.


Nah, anyway decentralized != anonymous. Even in Tor there are servers.

What we need isn't a decentralized http replacement. What we need is a 
decentralized dns with some form of filters available.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread Mark Fisher via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:


So... basically, it's a Bitcoin, but instead of transactions, 
the blockchain should store posts and profiles. :) And it 
should have some additional features (the typical things of 
social media - profile picture, some optional information about 
the user, etc.).
And obviously, it is supposed to be written in D, instead of 
C++ like the Bitcoin.
I also think that this blockchain shouldn't be downloaded by 
the client like the Bitcoin does. Only the servers need it. 
Clients will download only the posts that it needs (and 
requests).




why not use the actual bitcoin blockchain? there exists a process 
called "etching" whereby one may store indelible messages.




Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 05:18:40 UTC, wigy wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:11:06 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


Hi! I do not think the debate you have with yourself is 
decentralized vs centralized. You are thinking about moderated 
vs unmoderated. One is a technical structure, the other is a 
social one.


[...]


Great explanation, perfectly done.  A decentralized medium like 
this will one day put facebook, twitter, Uber, etc. out of 
business.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread wigy via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:11:06 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

So... suggestions... Centralized? Decentralized?

I think the centralized wouldn't fit in any country. It would 
certainly contain pedophile posts... and any sane country would 
shut down the servers immediately...


So... DEcentralized?


Hi! I do not think the debate you have with yourself is 
decentralized vs centralized. You are thinking about moderated vs 
unmoderated. One is a technical structure, the other is a social 
one.


We got used to have moderated channels in media and unmoderated 
channels in person. Now the problem we are facing is that we use 
these social media platforms for replacing "in person" 
communications with friend and family. And the owners of these 
platforms are still treating it as "media" that they should 
moderate.


But this is not so black-and-white still. When i am talking to my 
mother-in-law who has different political biases than me, I 
moderate *myself* not to bring up topics that would just divide 
us, because I love her enough to tolerate her opinions. What 
happens is that we have many social circles in which we have 
different topics and ethical norms. This is in our nature and 
that is fine. Football fans ventilate their emotions at the game, 
but they would not use the same language in their workplace.


So what I see is that a social media platform should be 
decentralized to avoid influence from its owner. It should be 
divided into many communities. And each community should be able 
to downvote content that is not tolerated in those circles. And 
downvoted content should be also available by others, it should 
just take more actions to peek into that and convince yourself 
that it was indeed something inapt for that community.


In the digital world, everything seems to be black and white. But 
social behaviors are more subtle than that. It is easy to create 
a total dictatorial system like facebook, and it is also easy to 
create a total anarchist system like Silk Road. And our goal is 
to create a system that is similar to in-real-life communication, 
which is neither completely free, nor completely controlled.


You cannot build that system on top of a centralized architecture 
where a government can just ask for all data including a order to 
keep that secret. People never trusted their inner thoughts or 
family conversation onto the government. And they should not.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:06:02 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:04:58 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 19:37:01 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


People... I seriously don't know what to do... Continue with 
the decentralized, but very likely to have pedophilic content 
and users version, or go to a centralized, written in D and 
open-sourced version?


This Gab and this Dreamwidth seem to be proprietary aren't 
they? I didn't a link for their sources...


I want it to be opensource. And written in D. <- Those are 
very important...


Ah, sorry. I just found one of the sources. :P


Dreamwidth seems to be Pearl. Again... I need D. I want this 
language to grow more and more... And the fastest way is to make 
it famous, known (by creating interesting projects in D). :)


So... suggestions... Centralized? Decentralized?

I think the centralized wouldn't fit in any country. It would 
certainly contain pedophile posts... and any sane country would 
shut down the servers immediately...


So... DEcentralized?


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:04:58 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 19:37:01 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


People... I seriously don't know what to do... Continue with 
the decentralized, but very likely to have pedophilic content 
and users version, or go to a centralized, written in D and 
open-sourced version?


This Gab and this Dreamwidth seem to be proprietary aren't 
they? I didn't a link for their sources...


I want it to be opensource. And written in D. <- Those are very 
important...


Ah, sorry. I just found one of the sources. :P


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 19:37:01 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:55:45 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


If you have any price proposal, please tell me.

* I will not participate directly in the project. I still 
didn't learn D enough to aventurate in a big project like this 
one...


People... It just came to mind... it's a very bad idea to make 
an incensurable social media. It would be a safe heaven for 
pedophiles, drug traffickers, human traffickers, hitmen and 
criminals alike.


I will create another topic in the forum, but for another 
project (way easier to be done, by the way - with vibe.d, no 
blockchain, no big cryptographic use...).
It will be a centralized social media (like any other social 
media - a normal website, with normal apps... and SOME 
moderation/control).
Again: *Some* control. And this control has to be limited by 
all means. And I may know how...


I will post the link to the new project details as a reply 
here. Please, wait.



*I know that a few of you might be saying that I might being 
blackmailed or even bribed to stop the original project, but 
no. I really think a 100% uncontrollable social media could be 
disastrous and dangerous. Some moderation is necessary, even if 
it is just to stop criminals like the mentioned ones.

Sorry if I disappointed you.

But still, it will be done completely in D with vibe.d (app MAY 
BE in D too, if we manage to do them in D - I'm talking about 
Android; iOS in no way has support to it, officially or not. 
But I plan to have an app for them).


And everything will be opensourced, first functioning version 
will be paid (same scheme as before).


People... I seriously don't know what to do... Continue with the 
decentralized, but very likely to have pedophilic content and 
users version, or go to a centralized, written in D and 
open-sourced version?


This Gab and this Dreamwidth seem to be proprietary aren't they? 
I didn't a link for their sources...


I want it to be opensource. And written in D. <- Those are very 
important...


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:55:45 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
* First of all, does Dlang.org have it's own website for 
hiring D programmers or offering D programming services? If 
not, it should!


[...]


If you have any price proposal, please tell me.

* I will not participate directly in the project. I still 
didn't learn D enough to aventurate in a big project like this 
one...


People... It just came to mind... it's a very bad idea to make an 
incensurable social media. It would be a safe heaven for 
pedophiles, drug traffickers, human traffickers, hitmen and 
criminals alike.


I will create another topic in the forum, but for another project 
(way easier to be done, by the way - with vibe.d, no blockchain, 
no big cryptographic use...).
It will be a centralized social media (like any other social 
media - a normal website, with normal apps... and SOME 
moderation/control).
Again: *Some* control. And this control has to be limited by all 
means. And I may know how...


I will post the link to the new project details as a reply here. 
Please, wait.



*I know that a few of you might be saying that I might being 
blackmailed or even bribed to stop the original project, but no. 
I really think a 100% uncontrollable social media could be 
disastrous and dangerous. Some moderation is necessary, even if 
it is just to stop criminals like the mentioned ones.

Sorry if I disappointed you.

But still, it will be done completely in D with vibe.d (app MAY 
BE in D too, if we manage to do them in D - I'm talking about 
Android; iOS in no way has support to it, officially or not. But 
I plan to have an app for them).


And everything will be opensourced, first functioning version 
will be paid (same scheme as before).


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 14:27:41 UTC, István wrote:
These are still centralized services which any time might 
decide to change to censorship or forced to shut down, then you 
lose access to your content the same way.


I saw 4 such cases and it was always easier to setup a replica. 
And those replacements are already made with replication in mind.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread István via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 12:12:29 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 11:11:20 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
Have you heard of https://gab.ai ? They are doing something 
similar (in terms of providing an uncensored platform).


Another one is dreamwidth.org, it started as a reaction to 
tighter control too and has a permissive content policy.


These are still centralized services which any time might decide 
to change to censorship or forced to shut down, then you lose 
access to your content the same way. Censorship-resistence can 
only be achieved by decentralized networks (like DHT, blockchain, 
etc) which have no classic governance/control and make attacks 
hard.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 11:11:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
Have you heard of https://gab.ai ? They are doing something 
similar (in terms of providing an uncensored platform).


Another one is dreamwidth.org, it started as a reaction to 
tighter control too and has a permissive content policy.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 7/12/17 12:40 AM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
* First of all, does Dlang.org have it's own website for hiring D 
programmers or offering D programming services? If not, it should!


Hello!
I need a project, and I want it done with D (please note that it will be 
open-sourced, but I'll pay for the first functioning version).
It is supposed to be useful for users of the project AND for learners of 
D (so lots of comments in the source code are actually encouraged!).


It's a social media. More specifically, an incensurable social media; 
all it's posts will be stored in a blockchain, and this will be copied 
and distributed through the world. I had the idea after seeing that many 
political posts were being removed from Facebook and Twitter. They are 
controlling people's opinions and I don't like it. People should be free 
to say whatever they want, this is freedom of speech.


Have you heard of https://gab.ai ? They are doing something similar (in 
terms of providing an uncensored platform).


-Steve


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread István via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
* First of all, does Dlang.org have it's own website for hiring 
D programmers or offering D programming services? If not, it 
should!


[...]


Hi Vitor,

we're also working on something quite similar already. We were 
thinking in slightly different technical directions, but we're 
still in the design phase, so nothing (language, storage, etc) 
are written in stone.


Are you interested in joining forces? If so, please ping my email:
jelszo...@gmail.com

best regards,
István


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
The server should be somewhat easy, afterall... it should 
receive posts that are signed by the user, and store the post 
(with signature) if the signature corresponds to post's message 
and public key of the user.


From what I know about bitcoin, block computation is somewhat 
expensive there. How do you plan to reward the miners?


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
* First of all, does Dlang.org have it's own website for hiring 
D programmers or offering D programming services? If not, it 
should!


There is https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html where companies 
using D can link to their hiring offers.

Please feel free to add your company to this page.


Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-12 Thread 9il via Digitalmars-d-announce

Hi Vitor, ping me by email: ilyayaroshe...@gmail.com --Ilya



Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-11 Thread Vitor Rozsas via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:
* First of all, does Dlang.org have it's own website for hiring 
D programmers or offering D programming services? If not, it 
should!


[...]


If you have any price proposal, please tell me.

* I will not participate directly in the project. I still didn't 
learn D enough to aventurate in a big project like this one...